MIKE CAHILL (Written and Directed by, Producer, Editor) was
born July 5, 1979 in New
Haven, Connecticut. From a young age, Mike experimented with filmmaking on
Fisher Price
and VHS camcorders. While studying Economics at Georgetown University, he bought
a Hi8
camera from a pawnshop and taught himself to edit on Adobe Premiere. Instead of
pursuing a
career in Economics, Cahill began working for National Geographic, first as an
intern, but within
a few months, he became the youngest field producer, editor, and cinematographer
on the
staff. After several years filming sharks, turtles, and other sea life for the "Crittercam"
series,
Cahill moved to Cuba for a year to make the award-winning documentary, BOXERS
AND
BALLERINAS. He later migrated to Los Angeles where he worked on various
documentaries
including the Sundance 2006 films, LEONARD COHEN I'M YOUR MAN and EVERYONE
STARE: THE POLICE INSIDE OUT.

Cahill made his feature film debut as director and screenwriter with ANOTHER
EARTH, a
science fiction film about a parallel planet. The film was a huge success at the
2011 Sundance
Film Festival and won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize as well as the
Special Jury Award
at the festival. His second feature I ORIGINS also won the Alfred P. Sloan
Feature Film Prize at
the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Both films were distributed by Fox Searchlight
Pictures. Mike
currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.